CANADA Canada - Linda Rose Guimond, N/A, Winnepeg, MB, 1980's

[TheArtfulDetective]

Linda Rose Guimond

• Missing Since - 1980's
• Missing From - Winnipeg, Manitoba
• Classification - Endangered Missing
• Sex - Female
• Race - Indigenous
• Date of Birth - 12/23/1963
• Age - Unknown at time of disappearance
• Tribal Information - Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba
• Distinguishing Characteristics - Long dark hair, fair complexion.

Details of Disappearance
Family members say the mother of three disappeared sometime in the 1980s after moving to Winnipeg, but they can no longer recall the date. They said it's possible she was hitchhiking to B.C. with her boyfriend. Her brother said relatives reported Guimond's disappearance to police but the Winnipeg Police Service, Manitoba RCMP, Vancouver Police Department and B.C. RCMP have no record of her case.

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/linda-rose-guimond

 

[TheArtfulDetective]

Without a trace

Linda Rose Guimond was born a day before Christmas in 1963. She was the youngest of 14 children.

Talking about her still brings her brother Norman Guimond, 73, to tears.

"She had long hair, kind of fair complexion. She had a beautiful smile — that's what I loved about her," he said. "She was a fun, spirited girl. She was my baby girl, my baby sister.”

Linda was a toddler when their parents split and the children were divided into different homes, Guimond said. He stayed and lived with his father while attending the residential school on Sagkeeng First Nation. His sister was adopted by a family in nearby Pine Falls, Man.

The siblings fell in and out of touch over the years.

Linda, a mother of three, was living in Winnipeg when she disappeared, Guimond said.

"What hurts most for people, I guess, is not having the closure," he said. "My mom kept up hope for many years. She wanted to see her baby girl come back home."

He can no longer recall the date his sister vanished, he said.

It was winter, in the mid-'80s. The details are vague.

"My mom's take on it ... is she was looking after her little ones and Linda wanted to go to the store, I guess the convenience [store], probably in February. It was cold and she said she just went out with a little jacket, and she said, ‘That was the last time I seen Linda.’"

She may have left for Vancouver, hitchhiking with a boyfriend, he said.

Guimond said relatives reported her disappearance to police but the Winnipeg Police Service, Manitoba RCMP, Vancouver Police Department and B.C. RCMP have no record of her case.

The lack of information is what's most difficult, Guimond said.

"Not knowing where she is and what really happened to her, her last moments — I think about that all the time," he said. "How can anyone disappear, you know, without leaving a clue?"

More than 30 years later, he still works to keep her memory alive by making an annual trip to the land they grew up on.

A photo of Linda also hangs on a star blanket at the Turtle Lodge in the community.

"To make myself feel a bit better, I say she's in a good place even though she's not here," he said. "She's in a good spirit world somewhere, but she just can't cross over."

He hopes sharing his sister's story might jog someone's memory. He would like to see police revisit the case and ask more questions.

"She was a human being. She was someone's baby girl," he said. "I'm sure there's somebody out there that's seen something. Why didn't they speak up? It happens all the time. It's not just us."

https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/stolen-sisters/

 

[Pennysmom1]

Not a lot of info out there. I'm assuming Linda is still missing

Linda Guimond, Missing from Manitoba since the 1980s.

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DOB: 12/23/1963
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Tribal Information: Linda is from the Sagkeeng First Nation